Sarah Waters Contemporary Critical Perspectives [Hardcover]

A multiple award-winning author, Sarah Waters is one of the most critically and commercially successful novelists writing today. In such novels asFingersmith,Tipping the Velvet,AffinityandThe Night Watch, her writing has played compellingly with popular and generic forms and narrative techniques and covered a number of important contemporary themes.

This critical guide is the first book to offer a wide range of current critical perspectives on Waters' work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues such as gender, sexuality, class, time and space in Waters' fiction, as well as her appropriation of a range of genres from the historical and neo-victorian novel to the gothic. The book also includes a new interview with Waters herself, a timeline of her life, chapter summaries and guides to further reading, making this an essential guide to the work of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction.

???Waters is one of the most acclaimed and commercially successful novelists today, and the collection offers a variety of critical perspectives on her work [???] this volume will undoubtedly be a helpful resource for undergraduate students and a useful starting point for readers coming to Waters's fictions anew.??? ???Clare O'Callaghan, Contemporary Women's Writing

Leading scholars explore the work of Sarah Waters from a full range of critical perspectives. Includes a new interview with the author.

Kaye Mitchell is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author ofA. L Kennedy(Palgrave 2007) andIntention and Text(Continuum, 2008).

Foreword: Adapting Sarah Waters,Andrew Davies
Series Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Chronology of Sarah Waters' Life

Introduction: The Popular and Critical Reception of Sarah Waters,Kaye Mitchell (UnilS‹